Alpha,omega-di-s-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxa-alkanes

ABSTRACT

1. NORMALLY LIQUID COMPOUNDS OF THE FORMULA   2-R,4-R&#39;&#39;,6-((4-R&#39;&#39;,6-R-S-TRIAZIN-2-YL)-(R)FO-)-S-TRIAZINE   WHERE RFO IS A LINKAGE OF THE FORMULA   -CF2O(CF2CF2O)M(CF2O)NCF2-   SAID LINKAGE HAVING AT LEAST 5 ETHER OXYGEN ATOMS AND A NUMBER AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF ABOUT 400 TO 40,000, M AND N ARE INTEGERS DESIGNATING RADOMYL DISTRIBUTED PERFLUOROETHYLENEOXY AND PERFLUOROMETHYLENEOXY REPREATING UNITS, RESPECTIVELY, THE RATIO M/N BEING 0.01/1 TO 5/1, AND R AND R&#39;&#39; ARE MONOVALENT ORGANIC RADICALS OF 1 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALKYL, CYCLOALKYL, PHENYL PERFLUORINATED ALKYL, PERFLUORINATED ALKOXYALKYL, PERFLUORINATED ALKOXYALKYLENEOXYLALKYL, AND PERFLUORINATED ALKOXYPOLY(ALKYLENEOXY) ALKYL.

United States Patent CS 8 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE a,w-Di-s-triazinyl n-perfluoropolyoxaalkanes, useful as hydraulic fluids or lubricants, of the formula:

where R and R are organic radicals, prepared, for example, by condensation between precursor amidine and perfluoropoly-(oxyalkylene) dinitriles and cyclization of the resulting di-imidoylamidine.

This application is a continuation-in-part of the copending application Ser. No. 70,540, filed Sept. 8, 1970.

This invention relates to a,w-di-s-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes and their preparation.

The advent of new higher performance aerospace systems has generated a demand for hydraulic fluids and lubricants which are capable of withstanding the increasing thermal and oxidative stress conditions without undergoing appreciable degradation (see Chemistry and Industry, Feb. 7, 1970, pages 178-179). This stability must be accompanied by adequate low temperature fluid properties and satisfactory lubricating characteristics. One or more of these important properties are lacking in currently available materials such as super-refined mineral oils, diesters, and polyphenyethers. Certain fluorocarbon materials, including those containing an s-triazine nucleus, have oxidative and thermal stability and have also been considered to meet such demand, but they generally exhibit relatively high temperature coefficients of viscositythat is, they exhibit a relatively large change in viscosity with a change in temperatureas well as having relatively high pour points and high viscosities at low temperatures, i.e. below 0 F.

In connection with fluorocarbon compounds related to those of the instant invention, reference is made to US. Pats. 3,086,946, 3,453,275, German Pat. 1,953,857, and J. Org. Chem. 32, 603 (1967).

The novel a,w-di-s-triazinyl n-perfluorop0lyoxaalkanes of this invention are normally liquid compounds and can be characterized by the general formula R R I where m and n are integers designating randomly distributed perfluoroethyleneoxy and perfluoromethyleneoxy repeating subunits, respectively, the ratio m/ n being 0.01/ 1 to 1, usually 0.2/1 to 5/ 1, said linkage connecting the two triazine nuclei having at least 5 ether oxygen atoms and a number average molecular weight of about 400 to about 40,000, or higher.

In said formula I, R and R are each monovalent organic radicals bonded to the triazine nucleus by a carboncarbon bond. Representative R and R radicals include alkyl (e.g. alkyl having 1 to 8 carbon atoms), and aryl (e.g. phenyl), cycloalkyl and heterocyclic with 5 or 6 ring atoms, e.g. cyclohexyl and tetrahydrofuranyl, and combinations thereof, e.g. alkaryl, aralkyl, and the like, such radicals preferably having 1 to l8 carbon atoms.

Said radicals R and R can be monovalent saturated fluoroaliphatic radicals (R; and R',), each of which is bonded to a carbon of the triazine nucleus. Where said fluoroaliphatic radical contains a plurality of carbon atoms in a skeletal chain, such chain may be branched or cyclic but preferably is a straight chain. Said skeletal chain of carbon atoms can be interrupted by divalent hetero atoms or radicals, such as divalent oxygen or sulfur, or trivalent nitrogen atoms, each of which is bonded only to carbon atoms, but preferably where such hetero moieties are present, such skeletal chain does not contain more than one said hetero moiety for every two carbon atoms. An occasional carbon-bonded hydrogen atom, bromine atom, or chlorine atom may be present, though they adversely affect thermal and/or oxidative stability of the compound; where present, however, they preferably are present not more than once for every two carbon atoms. Thus, for high thermal and oxidative stability, the nonskeletal valence bonds are preferably carbon-to-fluorine bonds, that is, R, and R, are preferably perfluorinated. The total number of carbon atoms in R; and R, can vary and be, for example, up to 50, but preferably is from 1 to 18, more preferably 1 to 8. Where R, and R; is or contains a cyclic structure, such structure preferably has 5 or 6 ring members, 1 or 2 of which can be said hetero atoms, e.g. oxygen, sulfur, and/or nitrogen. The R; and R, are also free of ethylenic or other carbon-to-carbon unsaturation, that is, they are saturated aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, or heterocyclic radicals. Examples of R, and R, radicals are fiuorinated alkyl, e.g. CF alkoxyalkyl, e.g. CF OCF and al koxymono (or poly) alkyleneoxyalkyl, e.g., CF OCF OCF said radicals being preferably perfluorinated, straight-chain aliphatic radicals consisting only of carbon and fluorine atoms.

R, can be the same as R, but preferably R, is a perfluoroalkyl or perfiuoroalkoxyalkyl radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and derived from a perfluoroalkanoic or perfluoroalkoxyalkanoic acid.

The various R, R, R and R" radicals can be all the same or can be different.

The compounds of formula I have a carbon-to-oxygen atom ratio of less than 5 to 1, preferably less than 3 to 1.-

The di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes of formula I,-

in addition to being chemically inert and having desirably high thermal and oxidative stability and relatively low' flammability, have extremely low temperature coefiicients of viscosity, that is, they exhibit little change in viscosity with change in temperature, and have a broad liquid range, that is, a low pour point combined with a high boiling point. These properties make the di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes particularly useful as lubricants, hydraulic fluids, and heat transfer fluids under severe service conditions, such as those encountered by supersonic aircraft. They also are useful as dielectric fluids and can be used in precision instruments such as gyroscopes and dashpots.

' As mentioned above, the di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes (1) exhibit very low changes in viscosity with temperature. This property can be best measured by follow-- ing Standard 533-43 of the American Petroleum 'Institute, frequently called the AST-M slope." This slope is the tangent of the acute angle of the viscosity-temperature temperature. Said Chemistry and Industry article, supra, gives viscosity-temperature values for a theoretical ideal lubricant. The ASTM slope determined from those values is 0.5. The ASTM slopes of some of the di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes of this invention approach 0.5 and others are lower than 0.5. These desirably low ASTM slopes for these compounds are coupled with high boiling points (i.e., low'volatility), low pour points, and lower viscosities at given temperatures.

The di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkanes of formula I can be prepared, for example, by the condensation of an amidine (II) with a novel perfiuoropoly(oxyalklyene) dinitrile (III) to form an intermediate novel di-imidoylamidine (IV), followed by cyclodehydration of the latter with an anhydride (V), as illustrated by the following series of equations where R is as defined above:

where the amidine (II) is a fluorinated amidine, i.e., R C(NH)NH it can be prepared from a corresponding mononitrile, RfCN, by treating the latter with an excess of ammonia and removing the unreacted ammonia, said mononitriles and said conversion procedures being known (e.g., see US. Pats. 2,567,001, 2,676,985, 3,696,002, and 3,470,176). Where the amidine (II) is a non-fluorinated amidine, or is otherwise free of strong electron-Withdrawing moieties, it can be prepared from the precursor mononitrile (such as those disclosed in U.S. Pat. 3,095,414) by such known procedures as disclosed in Organic Synthesis, Vol. I, p. 5 (1941), John Wiley & Sons, NY. and J. of Chem. Soc. (1946), p. 147. The di-nitrile (III) can be prepared by ammonolysis of the ester or acyl halide precursors (which are disclosed in Italian Pat. 817,809) and dehydration of the resulting carbonamide, using known procedures. The condensation of the dinitrile (III) with the amidine (II) can be carried out by following the known procedure for making imidoylamidines (e.g. see US. Pat. 3,489,727), for example in an inert solvent at low temperature, e.g. 40 C. to +25 C. The resulting di-imidoylamidine (IV) can then be cyclodehydrated, for example at 0 to 30 C., with the anhydride (V) (e.g. see Rubber Chem. and Tech. 39 1,175 (1966)). Suitable anhydrides for this purpose representatively include acetic, benzoic, 4,4,4-trifl'uorobutyric, and acrylic anhydrides. The di-triazinyl perfluoropolyoxaalkane product (I) can be recovered from the resulting reaction product mixture by distillation or-by any other suitable recovery technique. For exampleytheproduct can be recovered by distillation after first distilling off the solvent and by the by-product acid, R'CO H, and any other low boiling byproducts which may' result from incomplete condensation. Ring closure of the di-imidoylamidine can also be accomplished with acyl halides, nitriles, esters, or the like.

Objects and advantages of this invention are illustrated in the'following examples, but the various materials and amounts thereof recited in these examples, as well as-various conditions and other-details, should not be construed to unduly limit this invention. 1

EXAMPLEl Anhydrous gaseous ammonia was bubbled into 25 g. of

CH 'O COF O(CF CF O) (CF O') -CF CO CH (fi =l,400, m/n=1.55) until all the ester. groups were converted into amide groups. The liquid di'amide', h 1.3138, weighed 24.2 g. and had a carbonyl infrared ab; sorption band at 5.75 microns.

In a 500 ml. round-bottom glass flask was placed-22.8 g. (0.016 mole) of the liquid -dicarbonamide,.prepared above, viz. I L

g. of sand, and 57 g. (0.40 mole) of P 0 The mixture was shaken vigorously 'until it became nearly freeflowing, then heated in a sand bath under a'vacuum of 50 mm. of mercury. The'dinitrile product began distilling (through a short path distilling head) when the pot temperature reached 195 C. The pressure was reduced to 20 mm. at a pot temperature of 227 C. and to 2.5 mm. at a pot temperature of 248 C. Total heating time was about 3 hrs. The yield of colorless liquid was 19.2 g., n :1.2894. Infrared absorption of the group -CN is 4.39 microns. Fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance peaks (using CFCl as internal standard) for terminal CF groups are at 58.6 and 60.0 Thedata for said nitrile product are consistent with the structure I To a 100 ml. three-neck flask fitted with a dry ice condenser and containing about 50 ml. anhydrous ether, was transferred (by volatilization) about 4 g. (0.24 mole) of anhydrous ammonia. To this cold (-30 C.) solution was added 16.6 g. (0.012 mole) of the above-prepared dinitrile dissolved in 20 ml. of 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluor'oethane (Freon 113) over a 20-min. period with stirring. Stirring was continued an additional 30 min. and the solution allowed to warm to room temperature. Infrared analysis of the solution showed the absence of nitrile and the presence of peaks consistent for amidine. The di-amidine product is a viscous, colorless liquid having" the formula doyl amidine product gave a characteristic blue -com-. plex with cupric acetate and had the formula To the above-prepared imidoyl amidine product (ca. 0.012 mole) was added with stirring over. a 15-min. period 32.5 g. (0.060 mole, 20ml.) of perfluoroethoxypropionic anhydride. The reaction was exothermic (ca. 50 C.). The gelatinous material which formed initially dissolved on stirring for 15 min. Infrared analysis showed evidence that acylation and cyclization had taken place to yield the desired triazine product. Excess anhydride and acid by-product were removed under reduced pressure at the aspirator, and the residual liquid distilled through a short path (8 cm.) column at low pressure. The fraction (17.4 g.) boiling at to 300 C. at 0.05 to" 0.15 mm. was collected as a pale yellow liquid, and characterized by infrared and N.M.R. analyses as 55 (H =3150, n 4: 1 :308-5, mm.=f1.55). It had viscositi of 6.6 cs. a 199? and 31 Cm; its ASTM Pwas .62 n r A solution of g. of said imidoylamidine, dissolved in ml. of Freon 113, was added'dropwise with stirring to 15.0 g. of acrylic acid anhydride cooled to -5 C. Heating for two days at 40 C. resulted in formation of the di-triazine product. Excess anhydride and =by-product acrylic acid were removed by washing with aqueous p0- tassium bicarbonate.

After washing the organic layer with dilute hydrochloric acid and removal of solvent; the crude di-triazine product was obtained. A carbonyl i rnpurity was removed by means of column chromatography on silica gel in Freon 113 solution. The liquid di triazine product had the following N.M.R. absorption peaks: proton: 2.5-41- due to CH=CI-I fluorine: 74.1.. and 76.7* due to terminal CF 72.4* due to the group. Infrared analysis showed a strong band at 6.37 microns due to the triazine ring. These data are consistent with the following structure for the di-triazine TCH=CH1 EXAMPLE 3 The procedure of Example 2 was followed, except that the dinitrile used (45.6 g.) had a fi of 2100 and an m/n of 0.6 and the anhydride used (23.9 g.) was trifluoroacetic anhydride. The resulting crude di-triazine. product (45.9 g.) after removal of excess' -anhydride and acid under vacuum was purified by column chromatography on silica gel using, Freon 113 as eluting soluvent. In this manner, 22 g. of crude di-triazine (containing carbonyl impurities, as indicated by infrared analysis) yielded 12.9 g. of a cloudy product, which infrared analysis indicated was pure. Extraction of a solution of the cloudy product in a c-C F O/ C -F mixture with tetrahydrofuran aiforded, after 'rernoval of solvent, a di-triazine liquid product having the structure:

The di-triazine liquid product was heated at 250 C. at a pressure of mm. Hg to remove the more volatile sub- 6 stitue'nts; Theresidual di-triazine' producthad-"the following properties: I A 1 M61. Wt. (MI 4070 V, l nloi t .M 297- 6 4 2-51 ly iljfbl lid L2 -4; ,,6 i,N,

Intrared'An'alysis: Peak atfd tmicrons'f I -Yiscosity i-Centistokes 0 c. 442.4 38 c. 111.5 55 c. 70.6 68 0. 52.3 99 c. 29.9 232 c. 6.72

ASTM Slope (between 38 and 99 C.): 0.36

Thermal stability: a 1 g. sample of di-triazine was heated a total of 1344 hours at 232 C. in an open glass tube with no significant change in the infrared spectrum and only a 11.8% loss in weight. The sample remained clear and colorless.

Volatility: Thermogravimetric analysis (20 C. rise per min.) gave these results:

Wt. Loss percent: Temp., C. 25 381 50 458 75 498 100 534 where R is a linkage of the formula 2O( 2 2 )m( 2 )n 2 said linkage having at least 5 ether oxygen atoms and a number average molecular weight of about 400 to 40,000, m and n are integers designating randomly distributed perfluoroethyleneoxy and perfluoromethyleneoxy repeat ing units, respectively, the ratio m/n being 0.01/1 to 5/1, and R and R arelmonovalent organic radicals of l to 18 carbon atoms selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl perfluorinated alkyl, perfluorinated alkoxyalkyl, perfluorinated alkoxyalkyleneoxyalkyl, and perfluorinated alkoxypoly(alkyleneoxy) alkyl.

2. Compounds according to claim 1 wherein said radicals R and R are perfluorinated alkyl with 1 to 8 carbon atoms.

3. Compounds according to claim 1 wherein said radicals R and R are perfluorinated alkoxyalkyl with l to 8 carbon atoms.

4. Compounds according to claim 1 having an ASTM slope of about 0.5 or lower.

6 5'..;Compounds iaccor dingtoclaim. Lwherein said-radi- Gals R and R are -C2F4OC2F5. I I

6. Compounds according to claim 1 wher, I 11 said radicals R and R are CF I f 7. Compounds according'tdclaim l'whei'eidRfaridil l' are C F OC F m/ n is 1.55, and the numbefiaverjalge molecular weight of said compounds is 3150."

8. Compounds according to claim 1 wherein R andR' CF mm is 0.6, and the number average molecular weight of said compounds is 4070.

JEREerences iGitdf E UNITED STATESPATENTQ I 3,542,660 11/1970 firindahlet a]. L 260 248):

. 3,566,835 3/1971 Grindhal er al. 260248 3,708,483: 1/1973: :Andersdnz et 61. 260 248 .1 63 M46666;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE QETIFICATE 0F CORRECTION PATENT NO. 1 3,8 5,051

DATED I October 29, 197

INVENTOR(S) Joseph La Liar Zollinger It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent A are hereby corrected as shown below:

Column 5, line 17, the first "NH" should read NH Column 5, line 5'], "soluvent" should read solvent: Column (1, line (35, "phenyl" should read phenyl, --5

Column 7 lines 8 5-) "R and R CF should read R and R are CF A Column line l, "Grindhal" should read Grindahl Signed and grcaled this second D3) Of September 1975 [SEAL] Arrest.

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